Sentence examples for preferred procedure from inspiring English sources
Devereaux et al. argue that in a conventional RCT if there are more surgeons experienced with one of the procedures which may be expected in practice then the estimate of the treatment effect will be biased in favor of the preferred procedure [ 2].
Significantly more CON patients chose their physician for pragmatic reasons (for example, geographic proximity of the practice), whereas AM patients were more likely to choose their GPs based on the preferred procedure.
Composition out of court has, therefore, become the preferred procedure.
My preferred procedure is to write a check on the spot so that the literary gourmet can buy a copy.
But Mr. Turner had sought the opinion on Feb. 8, two months after his agency had selected Maximus for a major contract, which officials said ran counter to a preferred procedure of seeking an opinion before contracts are awarded.
The preferred procedure, two city officials said yesterday, is to ask for an advisory opinion from the Conflicts of Interest Board before a relative starts working for a company in question or at least before action is taken on a contract.
Patients from deprived areas were less likely to receive preferred procedures for rectal, breast, and lung cancer.
Socio-economic differences in survival have also been linked to discrepancies in access to treatment, with those in the most deprived groups more likely to receive late treatment [ 44], and less likely to receive preferred procedures such as anterior resection for rectal cancer, as compared to the least deprived groups [ 42].
PEG is considered as a safe and widely preferred pediatric procedure.
Between 1992 and 2009 the preferred bariatric procedure changed from mainly vertical banded gastroplasty to gastric bypass.
We preferred this procedure to the analysis of the raw sum scores, because these are skewed, and therefore cannot be analyzed with maximum likelihood approaches based on the assumption of normality (Derks et al. 2004).
